PIPELink Summer Research Program:  Deadline 3/15/95

Are you a female college sophomore or junior?  Are you interested in a
rewarding summer research experience with a chance to share your expertise
with high school students?  Then, you are invited to apply for the PipeLINK
Summer Research Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute!

The PipeLINK Summer Research Program is one component of the PipeLINK
program, whose goal is to link women across several stages of the computer
science pipeline, from high school through the Ph.D.  A primary goal of the
summer program is to provide opportunities for links between high school and
undergraduate students, and between undergraduate and graduate students and
faculty.

Specifically, as a PipeLINK summer participant, you will be assigned to a
research project mentored by a woman Rensselaer professor or graduate
student, either in the field of computer science and engineering, or in the
application of computing to another scientific or engineering field.  You
will spend 10 weeks at Rensselaer.  During the first 8 weeks, you will spend
time on your research, meet individually with your research mentor, and get
together with other participants (both undergraduate and graduate) for
informal events and social activities.  The last two weeks of the research
program will be concurrent with a two-week program for high school girls.
You will be invited to their programs, including lectures, demonstrations,
and plant and laboratory visits.  In particular, you will be a
"lab aide," helping individual high school students in hands-on activities
designed to introduce them to various aspects of computer science.  Finally,
you will present the results of your summer research at a "mini-conference,"
attended by all high school and college participants, as well as Rensselaer
faculty and local industrial contacts.

Your stipend for the summer will be $3000.  We will help arrange local
housing if needed. 

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is in Troy, New York, about 2 1/2 hours
north of New York City; about 3 hours west of Boston, and about 4 hours south
of Montreal.  We are easily reachable by air, rail, or automobile.  More
information about Rensselaer is available via the web at URL
"http://www.rpi.edu".

If this opportunity sounds exciting to you, please apply!  Send us the
following application form, a copy of your latest transcript, and ask one
professor to send us a letter of reference.

Send the materials to:

           PipeLINK Summer Research Program
           Computer Science Department
           Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
           Troy, NY 12180


All applications must be received by 3/15/95.
Selections will be made by 4/1/95.


--------------Application form for PipeLINK Summer Program-----------

Name:

Email:

College Address & Phone number (include valid dates):

Home Address & Phone Number:

What kind of computing experience do you have? (programming languages,
operating systems (UNIX?), hardware (SUN, MAC, PC?), editors, tools, etc.)




What kind of experience do you have with mentoring or teaching?
(camp counselor, tutor, undergraduate TA, etc.)



Please write a few paragraphs to tell us about yourself: your interests, your
plans for the future, and why you are interested in this program.